
We report 24 unrelated individuals with deletions and 17 additional cases with duplications at 10q11.21q21.1 identified by chromosomal microarray analysis. The rearrangements range in size from 0.3 to 12 Mb. Nineteen of the deletions and eight duplications are flanked by large, directly oriented segmental duplications of >98% sequence identity, suggesting that nonallelic homologous recombination (NAHR) caused these genomic rearrangements. Nine individuals with deletions and five with duplications have additional copy number changes. Detailed clinical evaluation of 20 patients with deletions revealed variable clinical features, with developmental delay (DD) and/or intellectual disability (ID) as the only features common to a majority of individuals. We suggest that some of the other features present in more than one patient with deletion, including hypotonia, sleep apnea, chronic constipation, gastroesophageal and vesicoureteral refluxes, epilepsy, ataxia, dysphagia, nystagmus, and ptosis may result from deletion of the CHAT gene, encoding choline acetyltransferase, and the SLC18A3 gene, mapping in the first intron of CHAT and encoding vesicular acetylcholine transporter. The phenotypic diversity and presence of the deletion in apparently normal carrier parents suggest that subjects carrying 10q11.21q11.23 deletions may exhibit variable phenotypic expressivity and incomplete penetrance influenced by additional genetic and nongenetic modifiers.
Chromosome Aberrations, Male, DNA Copy Number Variations, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 10, Developmental Disabilities, Chromosome Mapping, Genetic Variation, Infant, Penetrance, Abnormalities, Multiple/genetics; Child; Child, Preschool; Chromosome Aberrations; Chromosome Mapping; Chromosomes, Human, Pair 10; DNA Copy Number Variations; Developmental Disabilities/complications; Developmental Disabilities/genetics; Female; Genetic Variation; Homologous Recombination; Humans; In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence; Infant; Intellectual Disability/complications; Intellectual Disability/genetics; Male; Nerve Growth Factors/genetics; Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; Penetrance; Segmental Duplications, Genomic/genetics; Sequence Deletion; Vesicular Acetylcholine Transport Proteins/genetics, Segmental Duplications, Genomic, Child, Preschool, Intellectual Disability, Humans, Abnormalities, Multiple, Female, Nerve Growth Factors, Child, Homologous Recombination, In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
Chromosome Aberrations, Male, DNA Copy Number Variations, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 10, Developmental Disabilities, Chromosome Mapping, Genetic Variation, Infant, Penetrance, Abnormalities, Multiple/genetics; Child; Child, Preschool; Chromosome Aberrations; Chromosome Mapping; Chromosomes, Human, Pair 10; DNA Copy Number Variations; Developmental Disabilities/complications; Developmental Disabilities/genetics; Female; Genetic Variation; Homologous Recombination; Humans; In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence; Infant; Intellectual Disability/complications; Intellectual Disability/genetics; Male; Nerve Growth Factors/genetics; Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; Penetrance; Segmental Duplications, Genomic/genetics; Sequence Deletion; Vesicular Acetylcholine Transport Proteins/genetics, Segmental Duplications, Genomic, Child, Preschool, Intellectual Disability, Humans, Abnormalities, Multiple, Female, Nerve Growth Factors, Child, Homologous Recombination, In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
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